Longshot

Longshot (2001)

A powerful businessman blackmails a fitness instructor in order to gain inside information on the stock market.

Date of release
2001-10-25
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Action, Comedy, Thriller, Drama, Crime
Director
Lionel C. Martin

Casting

Interesting facts

Longshot is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Lionel C. Martin, and co-written by Lou Pearlman, as a promotional tool to promote the acting debuts of his succession of successful boybands and girl groups, such as NSYNC, O-Town and Natural, as well as singer Britney Spears, girlband Innosense and pop-hip hop trio LFO, all of whom had cameo appearances in the film, as Pearlman had worked with all of them during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Hunter Tylo, Paul Sorvino Antonio Sabato Jr., Zachery Ty Bryan, and Kenny Rogers star in the film and Spears has a cameo.

Production

About one-third of the film was service-produced in Toronto, which doubled up as New York City within the film, under contract with The Danforth Studios Ltd, a subsidiary of SpaceWorks Entertainment Inc. The film was a complete commercial failure, taking in nowhere near the $20 million it cost to film.

Earlier on, the film was known as Jack of All Trades.

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